Artist: Clan Of Xymox
Genre(s):
Gothic
Dance
Rock: Gothic
Electronic
Rock
Discography:
Breaking Point
Year: 2006
Tracks: 10
The Best of Clan of Xymox
Year: 2004
Tracks: 14
Farewell
Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
Remixes from the Underground, CD2
Year: 2002
Tracks: 5
Remixes from the Underground, CD1
Year: 2002
Tracks: 10
Notes from the Underground
Year: 2001
Tracks: 12
Subsequent Pleasures
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
Notes Form The Underground
Year: 2000
Tracks: 12
Live
Year: 2000
Tracks: 19
Liberty
Year: 2000
Tracks: 4
Twist of Shadows
Year: 1999
Tracks: 10
Creatures
Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
Clan of Xymox
Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
Hidden Faces
Year: 1998
Tracks: 13
Dark Pleasures (Bootleg)
Year: 1998
Tracks: 14
Metamorphosis
Year: 1994
Tracks: 9
Medusa
Year: 1994
Tracks: 10
Headclouds
Year: 1994
Tracks: 10
Clan of Xymox has been in the unfortunate billet of perpetually beingness compared to other bands since their inception. Whether it's the Cure or Joy Division, Clan of Xymox has never been capable to shake cancelled the similarities to their influences. Nevertheless, the group has produced an telling torso of work that consistently absorbed new sounds spell left close to the '80s goth rock menu.
Kin of Xymox was formed in Nijmegen, Netherlands, in 1983 by Ronny Moorings (vocals, guitar) and Anka Wolbert (sea bass, vocals). A class later, Moorings and Wolbert moved to Amsterdam, cathartic the LP Subsequent Pleasures as Xymox. (The album was limited to five hundred copies.) Xymox then became the opening act for Dead Can Dance in England. The band's presence on Dead Can Dance's U.K. tour caught the interest of 4AD Records, and the label eventually signed them. A class later, Xymox elongated their discover to Clan of Xymox and recorded a self-titled album in 1985, followed by Medusa the next year. In 1987, the group shortened their designation to Xymox in one case once again, contributory some other version of "Muscoviet Mosquito," originally on Subsequent Pleasures, to the 4AD compilation Lonesome Is an Eyesore. After the release of the undivided "Blind Hearts," Xymox left 4AD and joined Polygram/Wing.
In 1989, Xymox released Twist of Shadows, their most commercially successful LP, marketing 300,000 copies. The infectious and uncharacteristically upbeat "Capital of Arizona of My Heart" landed on the modern sway charts in 1991. However, the full-length Genus Phoenix didn't do as well as Turn of Shadows. Wolbert at rest from the band that year, replaced by bassist Mojca Zugna. In 1992, Xymox left Polygram/Wing for ZOK Records. Xymox record two albums for ZOK Records -- 1992's Metamorphosis and 1993's Headclouds -- in front switch to Tess Records in 1997 for the record album Hidden Faces. Moreover, Moorings called the group Clan of Xymox once again.
In 1999, they signed with the Metropolis pronounce and released Creatures, which was followed a year by and by by the two-CD Hot. The 2001 record album Notes from the Underground was reinterpreted on the double remix CD Remixes from the Underground, which landed in 2002. Farewell from 2003 was a themed album with bittersweet nightshade goodbyes to lovers and friends the main topics. The 2004 appeal The Best of Clan of Xymox constitute latter-day highlights side by side to re-recordings of the band's early material. Two long time later, the album Breaking Point was proclaimed by the single "Weak in My Knees."
